"Recognized" lol. Recognition isn't real state power, just like trannies aren't real women. The "western" (actually jewish anti-western) regimes are the ones who are mainly responsible for "recognizing", and people only care about this bullshit because they have strong armies and big economies. If some new regime overtakes western countries, then who decides "recognition"?
Another point: Somalia is "recognized" as one state. Crimea is "recognized" as Ukraine. Taiwan and Maintain China "recognize" eachother's territories as their own. South and North Korea also do this.